Improved belt-fastening



UNITED STATES MICHAEL W. COSTOLO, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED BELT-FASTENING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,561, Adated December 19, 1865.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL W. CosToLo, of Boston, in lthe count-y of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and Improved Belt Hitch or Fastening; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilieation, in which- Figure l is an outer or face view of my invention applied to a belt; Fig. 2, a section of Fig. l, taken in the line x.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a newand improved hitch or fastening for connecting` together the ends of belts for driving machinery.

The object ot' the invention is to obtain a simple and efficient device which may be rea-dily applied to a belt and admit of the same bein g readily taken up or tightened Whenever required.

A A represent two short metal bars, the ends a a of which are slightly curved, so that they may pass through holes b made in the ends ot' the belt B.

These hars A A have a parallel position relatively with each other, and their ends a, a have holes drilled through them to admit of rods bX being passed through at the side of the belt opposite to that Where the ends a a are inserted, the rods bX connecting the bars A A, and also connecting the ends of the belt together.

The ends of the helt may be readily disconnected by removing the rods b", and the belt taken up and shortened at any time, when necessary, by cutting oft' a portion ot' one end of the belt and making new holes therein for the ends of the bars A A to pass through.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The bars A A. curved at their ends and having holes drilled through them, in combina- MICHAEL W. COSTOLO.

Witnesses: i

HENRY 0. ROBERTS. ELIsHA BAssET'r. 

